SAMUEL ROLLES

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• SAMUEL ROLLES DRIVER (1846– )

DRIVER (1846– )  , English divine and Hebrew scholar, was born at Southampton on the 2nd of October 1846 . He was educated at Winchester and New College, Oxford, where he had a distinguished career, taking a first class in Literae Humaniores in 1869 . He was awarded the Pusey and Ellerton scholarship in 1866, the Kennicott scholarship in 187o (both Hebrew), and the Houghton Syriac prize in 1872 . From 187o he was a fellow, and from 1875 also a tutor, of New College, and in 1883 succeeded Pusey as regius professor of Hebrew and canon of Christ Church . He was a member of the Old Testament Revision Committee (1876–1884) and examining chaplain to the bishop of Southwell (1884–19o4); received the honorary degrees of doctor of literature of Dublin (1892), doctor of divinity of Glasgow (1901), doctor of literature of Cambridge (1905); and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1902 . Dr Driver devoted his life to the study, both textual and critical, of the Old Testament . Among his numerous works are commentaries on Joel and Amos (1897); Deuteronomy (1902); Daniel (root); Genesis (1909); the Minor Prophets, Nahum to Malachi (1905) ; Job (1905); Jeremiah (1906); Leviticus (1894 Hebrew text, 1898 trans. and notes); Samuel (Hebrew text, 1890) . Among his more general works are: Treatise on the Use of the Tenses in Hebrew (1892); Isaiah, his Life and Times (1893); Introd. to the Literature of the Old Test . (1897, ed . 1909) ; Sermons on Subjects connected with the Old Testament (1892); The Parallel Psalter (1904); Heb. and Eng . Lexicon of the O.T . (in collaboration, 1906); Modern Research as illustrating the Bible (1909) ; articles in the Ency .

Brit., Ency . Bibl. and

Hastings' Dict. of the Bible .